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The PhD in “Migrations, Differences, Social Justice” (MI.DI.GI.) intends to promote a research line that mainly owns an interdisciplinary and borderline nature in the theoretical and empirical fields. This research approach can contribute to overcoming the real division currently existing between categories relating to politics and legislation, economics, narratives, the media, and the real experiences of those who take part in the migratory flows. The processes of conservation, transformation and innovation drive the research’s critical horizon, while avoiding flattening out on the present and stimulating the logic of pure movement. Instead, a reflection that can be culturally valid and methodologically based on the phenomena under scrutiny is strongly promoted. In line with these perspectives, multi-site research is required to take place in the areas of departure of migrants as well as in those of arrival and in transit countries. These are expected to testify to points of view, experiences, individual and collective projects, which can offer a contribution to the change of the European and Global North agenda on migration. The privileged observatory is represented by the dimension of the journey and its profound transformative value, although movement and forced immobility never stop being object of interest. At the same time, space is given to research on the development of action lines on the level of the social inclusion of the actors who took part in the migration processes, while starting with those that aim to create inclusive public policies and communication practices in the relation between the new citizens and public administration.

The exploration of this complex universe will make use of both quantitative and qualitative models and will particularly pay attention to the following thematic lines:

1. Narrative and educational models: differences, otherness, identity;
2. Vulnerability: global health, bodies, emotions, memories;
3. (Im)mobility and transformations: natural and social environments, rights, policies, economies.

The PhD is characterised by the promotion of projects, research activities, scientific exchanges with international research centres, with particular attention to the Global South (Asians, Africans, Latin Americans), with national and international organisations, with activists and artists who truly contribute to the construction of new narratives and new angles of observation which can help describe and interpret the experience of being a migrant.

The PhD encourages the participation of Italian and foreign students who come from all graduate courses.

 

Course objectives
The PhD course aims to train migration experts in a variety of research areas including the legal, health, literary, linguistic, political, anthropological, sociological-statistical fields. Attention is paid to the creation of professional figures who are interested in encouraging knowledge connection and exchange, in ethnographically collecting first-hand experiences and data, as well as in analysing a large amount of quantitative data. These professionals are expected to be familiar with issues on inequality and social violence, on discrimination based on race, sex, language, religion and other emerging forms, and to critically investigate their representations. In brief, these professional figures, in line with the principles based on the respect of human rights, are expected to constructively deal with the multiple requests that may come from the institutions as responsible for the elaboration and identification of the numerous migration policies which occur in the contexts of health, legal, educational and social assistance, communication fields, and intercultural and language mediation. Being equipped with in-depth interdisciplinary skills and in the position to provide a multidimensional analysis of migratory phenomena, these professional figures will become social actors familiar with the changes taking place and with the migrants’ perspectives

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The PhD in “Migrations, Differences, Social Justice” (MI.DI.GI.) intends to promote a research line that mainly owns an interdisciplinary and borderline nature in the theoretical and empirical fields. This research approach can contribute to overcoming the real division currently existing between categories relating to politics and legislation, economics, narratives, the media, and the real experiences of those who take part in the migratory flows. The processes of conservation, transformation and innovation drive the research’s critical horizon, while avoiding flattening out on the present and stimulating the logic of pure movement. Instead, a reflection that can be culturally valid and methodologically based on the phenomena under scrutiny is strongly promoted. In line with these perspectives, multi-site research is required to take place in the areas of departure of migrants as well as in those of arrival and in transit countries. These are expected to testify to points of view, experiences, individual and collective projects, which can offer a contribution to the change of the European and Global North agenda on migration. The privileged observatory is represented by the dimension of the journey and its profound transformative value, although movement and forced immobility never stop being object of interest. At the same time, space is given to research on the development of action lines on the level of the social inclusion of the actors who took part in the migration processes, while starting with those that aim to create inclusive public policies and communication practices in the relation between the new citizens and public administration.

The exploration of this complex universe will make use of both quantitative and qualitative models and will particularly pay attention to the following thematic lines:
1. Narrative and educational models: differences, otherness, identity;
2. Vulnerability: global health, bodies, emotions, memories;
3. (Im)mobility and transformations: natural and social environments, rights, policies, economies.

The PhD is characterised by the promotion of projects, research activities, scientific exchanges with international research centres, with particular attention to the Global South (Asians, Africans, Latin Americans), with national and international organisations, with activists and artists who truly contribute to the construction of new narratives and new angles of observation which can help describe and interpret the experience of being a migrant. The PhD encourages the participation of Italian and foreign students who come from all graduate courses.

Course objectives
The PhD course aims to train migration experts in a variety of research areas including the legal, health, literary, linguistic, political, anthropological, sociological-statistical fields. Attention is paid to the creation of professional figures who are interested in encouraging knowledge connection and exchange, in ethnographically collecting first-hand experiences and data, as well as in analysing a large amount of quantitative data. These professionals are expected to be familiar with issues on inequality and social violence, on discrimination based on race, sex, language, religion and other emerging forms, and to critically investigate their representations. In brief, these professional figures, in line with the principles based on the respect of human rights, are expected to constructively deal with the multiple requests that may come from the institutions as responsible for the elaboration and identification of the numerous migration policies which occur in the contexts of health, legal, educational and social assistance, communication fields, and intercultural and language mediation. Being equipped with in-depth interdisciplinary skills and in the position to provide a multidimensional analysis of migratory phenomena, these professional figures will become social actors familiar with the changes taking place and with the migrants’ perspectives